Support groups tell obese people to be happy in their skin.

And obese people can present treatment challenges in the hospital.

Yet few want to give up and accept the idea that this is a nation of obese people.

A new study found that many obese people think they are already at a healthy weight.

Of 12,000 obese people in a 1999 federal study, more than half said they were never told to curb their weight.

Some obese people will not fit in a closed machine, with a diameter just under two feet.

This prejudice against obese people is found throughout other health care professionals.

By that measure, obese people now make up one-third of the adult population.

Obese people are less active than their normal weight counterparts.

Should obese people then just claim it is due to their hormones/brain?